Talk:Mura

Another meaning

I've encountered mura (seemingly a plural) in reference to film-grain-like and worse visual artifacts and distortions, especially in dark areas, in the context of VR headsets and other gaming and computer-graphics material. The term is even making it's way pretty commonly into VH headset marketing materials ("mura-free" [1]) now, so is apparently well-enough understood by the target market for those devices. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 04:45, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation pages are not for every meaning under the Sun. Per MOS:DAB, they are "designed to help a reader find the right Wikipedia article" (bolding mine). I doubt there is an article for this particular thing, so sometimes lessa is mura. Clarityfiend (talk) 05:47, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I know what they are for. I've been here for 15+ years. What I mean (I would think this is obvious) is that we lack an article on this subject, but one can probably be written and then added here. We do have articles on the vast majority of computer-graphics-and-optics-related terms of art by this point, but seem to be missing this one. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 06:17, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

PS: I've notified WikiProjects Computing, Video Games, Computer Graphics, and Computer Science about this discussion. Between them, there are probably enough people who know what this is and what the good sources for it are to whip something up. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 07:18, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Based on this article, "mura" just means "unevenness" in Japanese (see also Mura (Japanese term)). Not sure it warrants its own article but possibly a mention at some VR related article. The Engadget link at this from Ars Technica are the only two sources in the VG-database of reliable sources I found mentioning "mura" wrt VR. This has a pretty good short description but I don't know how reliable the source is. Regards So Why 08:10, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]